Greetings! Typing this in sunny Koh Tao where we have spent the last few days taking our PADI scuba diving qualification. This comprised of learning how not to drag along the bottom, explode our lungs or eardrums, and watching some ultra cheesy American training vids. One exam and four dives later we are feeling reasonably confident in the deep blue sea and saw some gorgeous fish folk and coral. The beach here is stunning. When we are lounging on cush...

What ho chaps! Writing this from Chiang Khong in the North of Thailand where we arrived today and hope to cross over the border into Laos tomorrow. We plan to spend the next few days cruising along the Mekong River in a boat. We returned back from our jungle trek a couple of days ago, smelly, sleep deprived and aching but actually had a really good time. The rest of the group were nearly all German or Austrian apart but they all spoke English which mad...

Hello Friends! Thanks for all of your messages - apart from making us feel pretty goddamn popular, it's really nice to hear from you all - keep 'em coming! We are currently in the North of Thailand in a city called Chiang Mai - we revised our plans once we actually bothered to look at a map in any detail and realised that going to the coast would mean we would have to end up going back on ourselves in the end - doh! We stopped off in Sukothai for ...

Hello Everybody, Just a quick message to let everyone know that we arrived in one piece and that we are safe and sound. Staying in a hotel near Khao San Road which is where all the smelly backpackers congregate. Bangkok is pretty manic but we are already learning the fine art of deflecting the advances of tuk-tuk drivers and scam-merchants! I don't think our palid complexions and constant map checking help much - can't wait to get a tan - it's a defina...